Antiques Centres

Asset of Community Value status breathes life into campaign to save Hampstead antiques centre

Suggestions on centres to visit, from Cardiff and Pembrokeshire up to Denbighshire

The search is on for a new owner of The Emporium in Hungerford.

Small is indeed beautiful for traders at two redundant churches given a new life as antique centres in the heart of Norwich some years ago.

A dealer who launched an antiques centre in 2007 in a Suffolk town has made some alterations including changing it to a shop.

Bennie Gray is celebrating the long-awaited opening of the new Bond Street station in Mayfair.

Dealer Chris Watt opened Salisbury Antiques Centre nearly 30 years ago originally as a trade warehouse and despite upheavals down the years still believes "it’s well worth doing if sometimes all over the place”.

Mike Collins, the popular director of Sherman & Waterman which runs the weekly antiques markets in Covent Garden and Spitalfields – two of the busiest and best known markets in London – is as ebullient as ever.

Vincent Pugh and his wife Lesley White have opened their fourth centre under the brand name of Antiques on High.

Three months ago Kate and Steven Lee opened Antiques at Four, a small 13-dealer antiques centre in the Suffolk town of Beccles, just up the road from their shop, Blyburgate Antiques.

Business is doing so well at the newly acquired and renovated antiques centre in Wallingford, formerly the Lamb Arcade, that turnover has increased by 25%.

Another centre will be added to the Antiques on High brand currently in Oxford, Sidmouth and Bowness-on-Windermere when owner Vincent Page opens a fourth shop “north of Birmingham but south of Bowness,” he says.

Ex-industrial premises have been brought back by firms relying on heritage interest

Among the places to see in and around Tunbridge Wells is the The Pantiles Arcade.

A new antiques shop opens in listed 18th century building following refurbishment

A family of antiques dealers are hoping to raise funds to continue the restoration of two Elizabethan barns in the Surrey countryside that house their centre.